Improvement in wash-boilers



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PIUS L. SHEPLERAND SAlVUEL L. IRWIN, OF WHITEHOUSE, OHIO.

- Letters Patent No. 83,218, dated October 20, 1868. v

IMPROVEMENT IN WASH-BOILERS.

The Schedule referred to' these Letters Patent and making part of the`same.

commonly used for washing-purposes, provided in partwith ourimprovement. y

Figure 2 is a plan view of our grated false bottom. Figure 3, a view ofour sleeved connecting and distributing-pipe.

Like letters indicate like parts in each ligure.

This invention is designed to reduce the `labor required by ordinaryprocesses of washingv clothes, and consists in so constructing a boilerand its attachments that, when properly iilled, and acted upon by fireor4 heat, avacuum will be created below the false bottom, by adisplacement of the water, which is forced to ascend in the chambers atthe ends of the boiler, and thence passing into suitabledistributing-tubes, isl discharged, i`n a constant and steady shower,upon the clothes, and, forcing its way down through the same, abstractsthe dirt in its passage; or, in other words, the apparatus is designedto keep a constant current of water passing through the clothing beingoperated upon.

We construct a boiler, A, provided with chambers Y' B, at each end ofand outside the wall of the boiler.I

These chambers may be semicircular in form, or any other desired shape,and should be larger at the bottom than at the top. A slot should be cutthrough the walls of the boiler, at either end, affording au outlet fromthe boiler into the chambers, near their bottoms, which rest upon andare attached to ears C, which form a continuation of a pit-bottom of theboiler. The upper ends of these chambers terminate in tubes D,project-'-A ing inward through the end walls of the boiler, and,

when in operation, are connected by two .perforated tubes E, one ofwhich isA slipped inside the other telescopically. Across the pit inthebottom of the boiler are rigidly fastened braces F,.whioh also. act as afoundation, upon which rests the/,'.grated false bottom J, which is heldin place by button G, which engages with catches or legs H, soldered orriveted to the side. walls of ,the boiler. I is `a suitable faucetinserted through the wall ofthe boiler, below the false bottom,

for the purpose of enabling the operatorto draw on" filthy water atpleasure.

W'hat we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

'The perforated sliding extension tube E, in combination with thechambers B, the gratedfa-lse bottom J, provided with button G, andthelugs H, on the boiler A, substantially as and for the purposes setforth.

Also, the ears C, in connection with the chambers B, and the pit-bottomof the boiler A, substantially as described.

And the combination of all the above-named partswith the faucet I, whenarranged and operating sub'd stantially as -andfor the purposes hereinspecified. PIUS L. SHEPLER. SAMUEL L. IRWIN. Witnesses:

H. T. EBERTs, Lewis L. GORDON.

